He transferred to Mozambique where his military occupation was to check the cement cargoes from Beira to the Cahora Bassa Dam construction site, near Tete.
While serving in the army, Crespo also entered the newly created School of Medicine of the University of Lourenço Marques where he would complete a number of academic disciplines but not graduate.
After the Carnation Revolution left-leaning military coup at Lisbon in April 1974, fresh out of the troop, Crespo fled Mozambique for South Africa.
The Mozambican transition to independence was marked by the mass exodus of ethnic Portuguese citizens from a territory that was about to become a totalitarist Marxist–Leninist failed state - the People's Republic of Mozambique.
Throughout two decades working for RTP, Crespo reached notability as a reporter and journalist, and made friendship with other personalities of the Portuguese media such as José Eduardo Moniz, Manuela Moura Guedes, and Miguel Sousa Tavares.
Depressed and on a shrinking salary, Crespo resigned from his contract with RTP and sought a job at the SIC Notícias television channel in the year 2000, to be an international information correspondent, and it turned out not to happen.
[1][2] On March 26, 2014, he presented the last Jornal das 9 news program making a critical speech at the end saying "God bless Portugal".